Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-02-24
WASHINGTON.
Judge Chenoweth and Newspaper
Man Locked Out in the Cold by
Spring Lock.
A strong Petition from Socorro, New Mex
leo, Ctizens-GreeIy's Confirmation
Being Bitterly Opposed.
CHENOWRTH's EXPERIENCE.
IL 4

Special to the Gazette.
WASHINGTON, Feb. ga good story
is furnished by an adventure which hap
pened to Judge Chenoweth of Texas, last
night. No. 1920, New York avenue, is
part of large business block which is
occupied by many prominent government
officials, leading Washington lawyers snd
colony OF brilliant newspaper men.
Judge Chenoweth went out to recep-
ton, donned his new broadcloth spike
tsil, and looked the pink Of perfection in
his immaculate white necktie, embroidered
shirt front and patent leather shoes. The
top story Of the building is occupied by
the Central Telephone office. This build
ing closes at the eminently respectable
hour of u o'clock sharp, SO when the
Texas gentleman returned, half an hour
later from mis- dinner party, he found the
outer door secured for the night, ard to
his horror on trying his latch key it /:
would not fit, so he says, and he iudig-
nautly denies that he failed to tEd the
key hole. Having sn ardent desire to get in
as soon as possible 10 his own snug
little bed he began a pounding on the
door-diversifying it by believing coca
sonally. This soon brought down stairs
one of that noble and self-sacrificing class
called "the newspaper fraternity" who
had left his own bed to, which Of course
he had retired early, aud accoutered as he
was, ran down and met the belligerent in
the street, but unfortunately affecting to
disbelieve that the key of the
treasury officer would not fit,
the newspaper man banged his
door shut and said defiantly
I'll show you how to open it. Again the
key failed to turn the lock and there the
two were left, the newspaper man shiV-
ering in his robe de mute ON the side
walk. Chenoweth loaned him his oveTcoat
but they beat on the door and called for
aid in vain. Then they Dethought them
of the telephone office in the upper story
and decided to open communication with
1t, but alas, each drug store IN the neigh
borhOod where there was a phone was
closed, and in the meantime the geitleman
i'll the bed garments was freezing in spite
OF the borrowed overcoat and the Judg- |
who had loaned the latter was in similar
condition in his thin evening dress. Then |
the Treasury officer decided to get into |
the Treasury building and 90 to mis- Office, |
where there is Il telephone and use that |
to effect an entrance to the lodgings. On
this idea he acted, despite the embarrRss |
ment OF trying to tell story that would |
not 1uln his official character to the night |
watchman at the Treasury, to whom he |
must reveal his identity to gain admission.
Finally he and his comrade got to his bu- |
re2u on the second floor and used the tel |
ephOne so successfully that one Of the |
girls in the central Office was persuaded |
to come down stairs and open the main !
door of the building in which they lodged, |
so at O'Clock this morning they got in |
side, and have lived to tell the tale.
NEW MEXICAN PETITIONS.
Petitions forwarded from the board of |
trade of S0corro, n. NJ, signed by Willard |
White, President, and r. P. Faddes, Sec
rotary, have been presented in both |
houses of Congress, setting forth that the |
natural advantages and surroundings |
OF Socorro are, to great extent, |
neut1aliZed because the city and sur
rounding country for distance of TWEEN |
ty-tive miles north and south and fifty |
miles east and west is covered by So
called and pretended unconfrmed land
grant. The petition states that the ab- |
sence OF good titles to the land retards |
the flow of immigration and capital to |
that section of country, prevents the de-
velopment of mineral and agricultural |
resources, Obstructs building, and all |
public and private improvements, and !
paraliZes business enterprises and pros |
poets. The petitioners ask Congress to |
take some action at the present session
toward settlement of the important and
veXatiOus question.
OPPOSING CAPTAIN GREELEY'S CoNFIRMA- |
TON.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 2S.-Mrs. -Pavey, |
the widow of DR.. Pavey, who was q mem
Der of the late Arctic ex edition to Lady |
Franklin bay, appeared before the Senate
committee on military affairs yesterday |
to oppose the pending nomination of !
Captain Greeley to be chief signal officer. |
She requested the committee to defer |
action on the nomination until Saturday, |
when she proposed to submit certain |
documents in opposition to confirmation. |
MRS. GENERAL JOHNSTON DEAD.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 23.-Mrs. Lydia |
McLane Johnston, wife of General Joseph !
f. Johnston. commissioner Of railroads, |
lied at her residence in this city yester-
day of paralysis.
JHE TEXAS INVESTIGATION.
WASHINGTON, Feb. % William Cause |
and Robert Wright, white, Democratic |
clerks of election st Flewellyn's polling |
place, last November, were examined by |
the Texas investigation committee to-day. |
They described the shooting CT Devices
Bolton. They did not see any mask on
the face of the man who was killed, nor
did they see the man who fired.
j. A. Vernon, white, justice of the
Peace elected on both tickets, WAS sworn.
He held an inquest upon the body OF
Devices Bolton. He declared that the
man was not masked or disguised in any
way when the inquest was held. The
findings of the jury of inquest
over Bottoms body declaring that
B Iton came to his death at the hands of
Polk Hill that the eight negroes arrested
we're accessories to the murder and that
it was committed under advice from Ed
Lockett, white, were put in the evidence.
The witness had unsuccessfully attempt
ed to find out who raided the ballot boxes.
There was no reward offered for the per-
petratCrs.